The Center for Biographical Research invites you to our Brown Bag Biography series for Spring 2025!
Join us at Kuykendall 410 on Thursdays from 12:00-1:15pm! All are welcome!
January 28: “Unsettlement and Mana Unuhi: Kaona, Refusal, and Disappearing Hawaiians”
Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Assistant Professor of Moʻolelo ʻŌiwi, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
Time: 3:00-4:30PM HST
February 6: “Ordinary Life Narratives and the Climate Crisis in Contemporary Literature”
Adina Balint, Professor of French Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Winnipeg
February 13: “Genealogies of Accountability”
Cameron Rasmussen, Assistant Professor, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health
February 20: “Graphic Energy: Comics, Ecology, and the Politics of Extraction”
Jeffrey Mather, Associate Professor in English, City University of Hong Kong
February 27: Indigenous Women: Strength, Resilience, and Inspiration
Patricia Cutright, Lakota author, Dean of Libraries Emerita, Retired, Central Washington University
March 6: “My 9th Birthday— a native Palestinian story of beauty and struggle”
Ma’an Odah, Hawaiʻi for Palestine and Community Organizer
March 13: “Religion and Revolution: Aurobindo Ghose and Indian Independence”
Keya Ganguly, Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota
Time: 12:00-1:15PM HST
March 13: “White Magic & Other Wonders: A Reading & Book Talk”
Elissa Washuta, Professor
Time: 3:00-4:30PM HST
March 27: “Life Narrative at the Terminus: Glacier Memoirs and Planetary Relationality”
John Zuern, Department of English and Co-editor for the Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
April 3: “Retrospective on Mark Takai’s Legacy”
Jenny Duhaylonsod Delos Santos, Author and Former Journalist
April 10: “All of Us or None: Movement-Building Migrant Stories to Confront Settler Carcerality”
Monisha Das Gupta, Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
April 17: “Letters: Living Archives of Everyday Politics”
Dr. Pallavi Gupta, Faculty, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
April 24: “The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Māhū/LGBTQ Kupuna”
Nohelani Teves, Associate Professor & Chair, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
